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Time Life's Glory Days of Rock 'N' Roll: Teen Idols
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This Time Life Music 2 CD set contains 30 hits from various teen idols from the fifties and sixties. Song list: Venus Frankie Avalon #1 hit for five weeks released 2/9/59.
Sweet Nothin's Brenda Lee #4 hit 12/21/59.
Love Letters In The Sand Pat Boone #1 hit for seven weeks 5/6/57.
Cindy's Birthday Johnny Crawford #8 hit 5/12/62.
You're Sixteen Johnny Burnette #8 hit 10/31/60.
Travelin' Man Ricky Nelson #1 hit for two weeks 4/24/61.
Venus In Blue Jeans Jimmy Clanton #7 hit 8/18/62.
All I Have To Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers #1 hit for five weeks 4/21/58.
The Wanderer Dion #2 hit 12/4/61.
Rubber Ball Bobby Vee #6 hit 11/28/60.
Tiger Fabian #3 hit 6/15/59.
Where The Boys Are Connie Francis #4 hit 4/16/61.
Calendar Girl Neil Sedaka #4 hit 12/19/60.
Roses Are Red (My Love) Bobby Vinton #1 hit for four weeks 6/9/62.
Only Love Can Break A Heart Gene Pitney #2 hit 9/15/62.
Hello Mary Lou Ricky Nelson #9 hit 5/1/61.
Tall Paul Annette Funicello #7 hit 1/5/59.
The Mountain's High Dick And Dee Dee #2 hit for two weeks 7/31/61.
Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) Edd Byrnes & Connie Stevens #4 hit 4/20/59.
Sixteen Reasons Connie Stevens #3 hit 2/1/60.
Take Good Care Of My Baby Bobby Vee #1 hit for three weeks 8/7/61.
Teen-Age Crush Tommy Sands #2 hit for two weeks 2/23/57.
Young Love Tab Hunter #1 hit for six weeks 1/12/57.
A Teenager In Love Dion & The Belmonts #5 hit 4/20/59.
Everybody's Somebody's Fool Connie Francis. #1 hit for two weeks 5/9/60.
Theme From Dr. Kildare Richard Chamberlain #10 hit 6/2/62.
Poetry In Motion Johnny Tillotson #2 hit 10/10/60.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Neil Sedaka #1 hit for two weeks 6/30/62.
Sealed With A Kiss Brian Hyland #3 hit 6/9/62.
Goodbye Cruel World James Darren #3 hit 10/16/61.
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Virtualy Altarnative [37 Great Hits] [2cd Set]
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Title: Virtually Alternative
Artist: Various Artists
Year: 1997
Length: 1:03:37
Genre: General Rock
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Tracks:
01 In My Arms / Erasure [3:29]
02 Rain / Baby Fox [3:39]
03 Tape Loop / Morcheeba [3:52]
04 Got Everything / Fluf [3:37]
05 Set It Off / Suzanne Smith [3:46]
06 Bitter / Jill Sobule [3:33]
07 Where Are They Now? (Remix) / Gene [3:06]
08 Pain / Super 8 [4:07]
09 It's No Good / Depeche Mode [4:07]
10 On The Way Out / Freedy Johnson [2:51]
11 California Phase / Toback, Jeremy [3:01]
12 I Am, I Feel / Alisha's Attic [4:03]
13 Edible / Trunk Federation [3:11]
14 Punk Virtuoso / 30 Amp Fuse [1:55]
15 Atari Teenage Riot / Atari Teenage Riot [3:38]
16 Picture Of A Clown / Shame Idols [4:22]
17 Show Off / Shoebomb [4:11]
18 Velocity / Penniless People Of Bulgaria [3:09]
Title: Virtually Alternative 78 [Disc 2]
Artist: Various Artists
Year:
Length: 1:09:32
Genre: General Alternative
Label:
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Tracks:
01 Clown Show / Edna Swap [3:57]
02 Blister In The Sun (2000) / Violent Femmes [3:01]
03 Little Pink Stars / Radish [3:33]
04 Shut Up And Sleep / Bug! [4:22]
05 Four Leaf Clover / Abra Moore [3:36]
06 Long Lost / Better Than Ezra [3:44]
07 The Day We Caught The Train / Ocean Colour Scene [3:09]
08 Starve / Rollins Band [4:11]
09 Crosseyed / Brendan Benson [3:49]
10 Under Your Skin / Luscious Jackson [3:58]
11 God Made Me / Chantal Kreviazuk [3:13]
12 What's In The Box? (See Whatcha Got) / The Boo Radleys [3:31]
13 Can't Get Free / Cranes [2:52]
14 Bass State Coma / Seven Red Seven [4:43]
15 Da Da / 60 Cycle [3:30]
16 Bright Side / Speclula [2:38]
17 You Been Gone / Chuck Prophet [4:35]
18 Kinda Girl / Gigolo Aunts [3:18]
19 Love Strong / Speaker [3:51]
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The Idolmaker [VHS]
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The same year Neil Diamond made a ballyhooed (through lackluster) remake of The Jazz Singer, first-time director Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) created a musical biography packed with energy, verve, and style. Golden Globe winner Ray Sharkey is Vincent Vacarri, a tough, charismatic music fan who turns producer, creating stars in the halcyon days of rock and roll. Loosely based on the life of Bob Marucci, who created the Fabian and Frankie Avalon juggernauts, the story is part character study, part musical. The outstanding concert sequences are the payoff with newcomer Peter Gallagher as the Fabian-like Caesare--a great bit of casting. Brill Building songwriter Jeff Barry's song score, including a cagey final number, is a highlight, as is Joe Pantoliano (in another debut) as Vacarri's abused but loyal songwriter partner. --Doug Thomas
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The Idolmaker
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Sale Price: $22.83
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The same year Neil Diamond made a ballyhooed (through lackluster) remake of The Jazz Singer, first-time director Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) created a musical biography packed with energy, verve, and style. Golden Globe winner Ray Sharkey is Vincent Vacarri, a tough, charismatic music fan who turns producer, creating stars in the halcyon days of rock and roll. Loosely based on the life of Bob Marucci, who created the Fabian and Frankie Avalon juggernauts, the story is part character study, part musical. The outstanding concert sequences are the payoff with newcomer Peter Gallagher as the Fabian-like Caesare--a great bit of casting. Brill Building songwriter Jeff Barry's song score, including a cagey final number, is a highlight, as is Joe Pantoliano (in another debut) as Vacarri's abused but loyal songwriter partner. --Doug Thomas
IDOLMAKER - DVD Movie
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Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection (Cafe Metropole/Girls Dormitory/Johnny Apollo/Daytime Wife/Luck of the Irish/Ill Never Forget You/That Wonderful Urge/Love Is News/This Above All/Second Honeymoon)
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If you're a Tyrone Power fan, it's very difficult to complain about the star's showing on DVD. Not only are Power's best-known films available, but the Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection serves up 10 titles that greatly fill in his tenure at Twentieth Century Fox. There isn't a classic in the set, just the kind of titles that audiences ate up when the handsome young actor was at his most popular. The oldest film in the box is Girls' Dormitory (1936), and Power is barely in it--he shows up in the final 10 minutes of this 66-minute drama. But it's a good one, energetically directed by Irving Cummings, about schoolmaster Herbert Marshall being dangerously worshipped by young student Simone Simon. The ending just might surprise you. Café Metropole is an efficient comedy about restaurant owner Adolphe Menjou and his plot to pay off debts by getting Power to impersonate a Russian prince and woo wealthy Loretta Young. Young is also Ty's co-star in two other 1937 pictures. Second Honeymoon pits them as a pair of exes, romping around Miami as Loretta shows off her new husband. The movie's a weirdly coarse approximation of the screwball formula that was in the air at the time. Love is News is better: Power is a newspaper reporter whose stories makes life uncomfortable for heiress Young; she turns the tables by pretending to be engaged to him. Director Tay Garnett gets a loose, knockabout quality into the performances, and Don Ameche contributes some Front Page salt. The remake of Love is News is also included: That Wonderful Urge (1948), with Power back in his role and Gene Tierney as the heiress. Day-Time Wife (1939) pairs Power with new Fox starlet Linda Darnell; he's too busy at work with his secretary, and she takes a job as a secretary herself (to wolfish boss Warren William, who could do wolfish better than anybody). In this battle of the sexes, male chauvinism reigns supreme. Power squirmed at Fox's lightweight view of him, and Johnny Apollo has a little more guts: Power is a feckless Ivy League lad who becomes disillusioned and falls into the world of the mob. You can see the actor excited by the darker possibilities of the role--but rest assured he's still every inch the elegant clotheshorse in this one. This Above All (1942) is a strange story and a dry run for Power's role as the soul-searcher in The Razor's Edge: he's an embittered soldier questioning the purpose of fighting the war. Patriotic Joan Fontaine has a few speeches for him, and director Anatole Litvak makes it all look sharp.After a run of dramatic roles and a break for WWII service, Power came back to romantic comedy with The Luck of the Irish, a whimsy-heavy thing about a reporter who tries to sell out--but not if a leprechaun (Cecil Kellaway) and a sweet Irish lass (Anne Baxter) have anything to do with it. The movie's no great shakes, but the DVD provides an option to watch the Irish scenes with green tinting, a novelty from the original theatrical release. I'll Never Forget You (aka The House in the Square), directed by Roy Ward Baker, is a costume picture with a supernatural edge--and fans of Somewhere in Time will recognize a kindred spirit. Ty plays a scientist whose house is a portal to the 18th century, where he travels to impersonate a lookalike ancestor. This nifty romance co-stars Ann Blyth and gives a delightfully foppish role to Dennis Price. Short documentaries fill out the box, including a lovely reminiscence from Power's three children. --Robert Horton
TYRONE POWER COLLECTION 2 - DVD Movie
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About the Ape in African Country
When he was captured in the African country of Equatorial Guinea in 1966 (or '67 depending on the informer), he was proclaimed a miracle by the local villagers. Nevertheless the actual miracle was the realism that he managed to live to the strong old age of 40 (80 in creature days).
Snowflake's first encounter with Lady Luck was when he was discovered as an orphaned heavy by a seeker. Whether the particulars of his discovery are accurate or not, what is not in probe is the good affluence that landed him in the hands of a Spanish naturalist for the huge sum of sixty pounds.
Snowflake suffered from a rider known as albinism (individuals with this state are termed albinos) which occurs in individuals who lack the coloring melanin. Albinos typically have very pale skin and are also very precision to the sun and light in general.
There are those who may maintain that it was misfortune very than wealth that ultimately landed Snowflake in custody, but the reality is, an albino thug would have next to no attempt of current in the madcap. Not only would Snowflake have had to contract with the daily ruin of mega-violet waves from the equatorial sun, but due to his flush he also would have been a walking food advertisement for crude thug predators.
Okay settled, gorillas have few predators other than man, but they do live, and the one that springs principal to brains is the leopard. The pallid blush of his fuzz (gorillas have wool not fur) would have made Snowflake unmistakably painless to mark in the untamed by a marauding marauder such as a leopard, be it night or day.
Anyway arrogant tale of his discovery is accurate, it may propose that Snowflake was ostracized and ultimately abandoned by his bully group, plus his mother. And why not! This scenario is not too far fetched; if man is not above discrimination or ostracization of those who are different, even in this offer day and age, why should we assume radically different behavior from gorillas who also happen to be
HOW A COLORLESS GORILLA PUT THE COLOR BACK INTO BARCELONA ZOO
Barcelona city embraced Snowflake as one of their own, or more accurately, they basically adored him! Knowing as Copito de nieve in Spanish, Snowflake soon enough became the City Mascot and the overwhelming crowd-puller at Barcelona Zoo. The early pasty thug was featured on postcards, stamps and posters and was responsible for doodle millions of tourists to the zoo.
Nevertheless how did all that new found fame imitate Snowflake? Well, in his 37 existence at the zoo, Snowflake fathered 22 offspring (grandkids included) from three females, gawking tourists notwithstanding. Much has been made of his angry mien and evident grumpy temperament, but as mentioned before albinos suffer from maximum sensitivity to light and therefore characteristically glimpse...Which on the face of a heavy may appear like angry.
Also it should come as no astound that Snowflake was not much sloping to cavort and frolic in the sun for the zoo visitors' entertainment...His prepare mostly excluded such tendencies.
And so what if Snowflake wasn't forever amenable to singing the fixture of be-nice-for-the tourists. Would you? Just imagine how you would feel if you were subjected to steady scrutiny, day-in-day-out, by rude, bad elaborate shaved apes (people).
Having said that however, Snowflake's situation could have been much inferior; if he had stayed in the violent it is well dubious that he would have survived for long. Also, by the time Snowflake was introduced to Barcelona Zoo, many of the misconceptions about brute lifestyles had since been resolved.
It was due to such prevailing ignorance with matter to gorillas that not long before gorillas in zoos were fed on a diet of meat and reserved in desolate cells. For a gregarious, vegetarian species, such conditions had to be sheer torture!
DEATH OF A STAR
Like any well known acclaim, Snowflake's killing in late 2003 caused a small wrinkle on the Richter magnitude, and by the time the dust lastly settled what remained was a city one-in-sadness yet strangely separated. (Snowflake was put to sleep because the symptoms of the mean disease (bane) which was diagnosed in 2001 were fitting increasingly awful...Moreover he was appealing old for a thug)
There're many who claimed and thought that the zoo authorities had unashamedly exploited the sick thug to the summit of excessive cruelty. The zoo authorities countered that they were merely giving the citizens of Barcelona the hazard to bid an ultimate farewell to the most legendary of their imminent sons. Nevertheless like a hit show oozing with sequel possible the good people at the zoo left nothing to opening.
Although none of Snowflake's offspring crooked out as albinos the authorities were really hopeful to breed a dominant variant of the gene (another albino thug) from the offspring gene-combine. It is not unreasonable to speculate that they hoped to recall Snowflake's idol tempt with a next-gen Ghost Gorilla.
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Was the late astronomer /TV personality Carl Sagan shot out into space ( his ashes) after he died?
Or was that Gene Roddenberry( Star Trek producer) and Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who was also one of my earlier idols.'Course he was ALWAYS high, so I don't know why they bothered.
Carl Sagan was usually high as well, known to have smoked pot regularly since the early 70's at least. Just FYI.
It's kind of pointless when the ashes are launched into space because they are still in Earth orbit and over time will eventually re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and fall back to Earth. No matter how much I loved space, I would not have wanted the money wasted launching my ashes into space. It's almost as pointless as those unofficial star-naming novelty sites.
Dr. Toon: The Meme of the Crop
One of the more interesting conceptions in evolutionary psychology (yeah, I'm still on that kick from last month) is the meme . The formulation of the meme, and its subsequent science, memetics, originated with one Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene.
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